Joanne Jacobs
Tolerating misbehavior undercuts learning
A six-year-old boy shot and nearly killed his first-grade teacher at a Newport News, Virginia school last week. The teacher was...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Akron teachers threaten strike over school safety
"We as educators are being asked to accept more and more violent language, violent assaults, violent behaviors from our students and we...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
A Filipina teacher in Arizona
Desperately short of teachers, Bullhead City, Arizona schools is importing teachers from the Philippines. They've received "outstanding"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
'Why would you teach a disadvantaged child that the world hates them'
After flirting with Marxism at Oxford, Katharine Birbalsingh began teaching in a state school with a "holistic, child-centered approach,"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 9, 2022
- 2 min
Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High?
Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High School? Replacing baby-boomer teachers was a challenge even before the COVID-19 pandemic.,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Why it's hard to close learning gaps
Student behavioral issues are a major barrier to closing learning gaps, say 67 percent teachers in a Khan Academy survey, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26, 2022
- 1 min
Why teachers quit
Student misbehavior is a key reason that teachers leave their jobs, writes Chalkboard Review's Tony Kinnett, who surveyed teachers in the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
Black male teachers are not security guards
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
The School Environment
If it’s a secret to the rest of the world, it’s not a secret to America’s teachers–school discipline is getting worse and worse. In...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 22, 2018
- 1 min
‘Sit Down and Shut Up’
On his first day in the classroom, Henderson was cursed and threatened by one of his students. He called a monitor to escort the student...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2018
- 2 min
Cutting suspensions doesn’t close ‘discipline gap’
California’s out-of-school suspension rate is way down, but the “discipline gap” remains, reports Mario Koran on The 74. Black students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 16, 2018
- 2 min
Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 16, 2018
- 1 min
Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
Broward County’s PROMISE program, which diverts misbehaving students from the criminal-justice system, didn’t enable a former student...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 21, 2018
- 1 min
Catholic schools teach self-control
Catholic schools build self-discipline, concludes a Fordham study. Students in Catholic schools were compared to public-school students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2018
- 2 min
‘Teachers feel threatened but aren’t backed up’
Gang graffiti on a fence in suburban Long Island, where police blame MS-13 for 30 murders in the last two years. Photo: Sarah...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2018
- 3 min
Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach...
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